How to Use idealize in a Sentence

idealize

verb

• She tends to idealize her job.
• Make no mistake, Ray said: the goal is to not to idealize Comey.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• NBA fans idealize their teams to the point that nobody new can compete.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 16 June 2017
• The West has been idealized as a place to get away from it all, which sets folks up for disappointment.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Women's Health, 17 May 2023
• The rapper doesn't allow the show to idealize his alter ego.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• But the temptation to idealize him as a symbol may be too strong.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• Barbie lives on the sort of suburban cul de sac idealized in that era.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• Olympic entries skewed toward the classic and idealized, even in Paris in 1924.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• One shouldn’t idealize what happened to her: there is a lot of injustice, and harm, and outrage in her story.
  — Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, 17 May 2017
• But here’s the thing: the time these people are idealizing—the time when women couldn’t leave marriages—was horrible.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 May 2017
• Saw Lu idealized the United States as a Christian nation.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• Even though readers tend to idealize these settings, Ames made sure to incorporate the highs and the lows into The Other’s Gold.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• To me, this idealized rural life was all about living at a slower pace and being more eco-conscious.
  — Lauren Juarez, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Day after day, minute by minute, their social media feeds are filled with images that idealize the taut, plump, smoothness of youth.
  — April Daniels Hussar, Allure, 12 July 2024
• Or, at least, a highly stylistic, idealized version of one.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2024
• This is not to idealize Mina herself, nor to claim her as a modern feminist.
  — Katherine Hobbs, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• And so we both sort of fetishize and idealize really excellent musicians from abroad and kind of have our own kind of, Oh, but what about our homegrown soloists?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
• The article avoids idealizing the victim, who, like the others, had been using drugs before the murder.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
• But dating a Filipino immersed me in a culture that idealized the opposite: a fair-skinned, half-white mestiza look.
  — Melissa Pandika, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
• Bros shines a light on the parts of gay male culture that seem to idealize and eroticize stereotypical masculinity.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Sep. 2022
• Artists who cut their teeth on digital platforms often idealize the careers of their childhood idols, who didn’t have to stress about the exhausting churn of TikTok trends.
  — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
• The Basquiat sisters have been accused of putting on a hagiography that idealizes its subject rather than giving a complete picture of his life.
  — Lily Moayeri, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
• Black motherhood has never been idealized the way white motherhood has been.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• But the general tenor of his work idealized Native Americans in the name of preserving vanishing ways of life.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 13 June 2017
• This process encourages people, especially women, to idealize certain kinds of body types and to try to achieve them.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Lucinda is less the focus of interest in the book than the people who idealized or envied her or now investigate her death.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
• In idealizing the past, his characters court disaster and tragedy.
  — Robert Rubsam, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• Krasner, with his frank, no-nonsense rhetoric and his indifference to tradition, is easy to idealize.
  — Anna Boots, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2021
• The victims are idealized, elevated even in their ordinariness, remembered as the most courageous, the kindest, the most beautiful.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
• There is also a particular American version of this tendency to idealize the EU as a model of multilateralism that is the antithesis of everything that Trump stands for.
  — Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024